Aerospace Contract Job Trends in Reading

Aerospace
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Aerospace in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aerospace over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Aerospace 15 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.88% - 0.090%
As % of the General category 3.30% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £477 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -23.76% +38.89% -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile £106.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 - -

All General Skills
Reading

Aerospace falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 455 496 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 57.09% 61.69% 64.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 225 401
10th Percentile £281 £250 £210
25th Percentile £401 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.79% -5.47%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.65% +5.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 25
10th Percentile £14.50 £33.05 £39.30
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £52.83 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +53.34% -9.39% -9.86%
75th Percentile £97.50 £67.26 £65.25
90th Percentile £101.20 £71.82 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £58.38 £58.00
% change year-on-year -0.64% +0.65% +5.45%

Aerospace
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aerospace relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Aerospace job vacancy trend in Reading

Aerospace
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Aerospace

Aerospace
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aerospace in Reading over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Aerospace in Reading

Aerospace
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) CATIA
1 1 (6.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HCM
2 1 (6.67%) SAP PS
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Environmental Health
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Asset and Configuration Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) SAP HCM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Learning Management System
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (26.67%) ArchiMate
2 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (26.67%) MODAF
2 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
3 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (20.00%) PLM
3 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) Budgeting
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (13.33%) IT Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (13.33%) Service Design
4 2 (13.33%) SFIA
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) CISSP
6 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Siemens